Adv. of the Whites: Had more troops, supplies, money than the red army + had foreign help.
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Why Russia was difficult to rule
massive, spans 16 time zones, 125 million people, wanted nationalism, some people didn't speak Russian, 92 times the size of GB, appalling transport links, different ethnic groups
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Problems of WW1
russia was huge, had poor transport links, inefficient agriculture + industry, lost over 2million men, lost large parts of 4 provinces + major coal mining district, Tsar took command of army, left German wife in charge when fighting Germans
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Effects of WW1
1917- over 15million people joined army due to conscription, conscripted peasants + trained factory workers, harder to grow enough food + keep industrial production up, army took horses from farms, 6million people went to Russia to work in factories
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Ready to revolt
Workers in North suffered most, 1914-1916>amount of food people ate fell by 25%, infant mortality doubled, 1917-crime rate was 3times greater than in 1914, Bolsheviks+Mensheviks held meetings + talked about revolution, loyalty for the Tsar stopped
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massive, spans 16 time zones, 125 million people, wanted nationalism, some people didn't speak Russian, 92 times the size of GB, appalling transport links, different ethnic groups
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Why Russia was difficult to rule
Card 3
Front
russia was huge, had poor transport links, inefficient agriculture + industry, lost over 2million men, lost large parts of 4 provinces + major coal mining district, Tsar took command of army, left German wife in charge when fighting Germans
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Card 4
Front
1917- over 15million people joined army due to conscription, conscripted peasants + trained factory workers, harder to grow enough food + keep industrial production up, army took horses from farms, 6million people went to Russia to work in factories
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Card 5
Front
Workers in North suffered most, 1914-1916>amount of food people ate fell by 25%, infant mortality doubled, 1917-crime rate was 3times greater than in 1914, Bolsheviks+Mensheviks held meetings + talked about revolution, loyalty for the Tsar stopped
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